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...this because we’re Harvard.’” says Stuart Clutterbuck, a guidance counselor at Bergen County Academies, a top magnet high school in New Jersey. He speculates that high school students would be unlikely to accept a one-year deferral at a less prestigious institution...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Z-Listed Students Experience Year Off | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...White House, the START follow-on will cut deployed warheads - those mounted on intercontinental missiles or bombers - to 1,550 for each side, which is about 30% below current levels. The total number of missiles and bombers available for launch at any given time will be cut to 700, less than half of current levels. That still leaves more than enough firepower to destroy the infrastructure and war-fighting capacity of both nations many times over. What's more, the treaty focuses only on deployed warheads, and does not limit the amount of warheads, missiles and bombers that either side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S.-Russia Nuke Treaty: Small Step on a Long Road | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...celebrity clientele last year for serving the tuna, the restaurant kept it on the menu but added a line noting that the species is "environmentally challenged" and suggesting that customers consider an alternative - a wussy solution that pleased nobody but allowed the restaurant to save face while keeping its less conscientious patrons happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning My Back, Sadly, on Bluefin Tuna | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...same time - come a close second. Singson warns that gambling will drain Pacquiao's fortune and besmirch his populist image. "I told him, 'People look at you as their idol. It's bad if they see you gambling.' So now he's stopped [going to] casinos already." Really? Less than two days after his homecoming, the boxer could be spotted playing Texas Hold'em at a windowless poker joint in Manila in the small hours. Peering protectively through nearby pot plants was his Canadian über-gofer Mike Koncz, who sat next to a bag of money. Twelve hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Manny Pacquiao Is the Underdog: Philippine Politics | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...system have made this policy look naive, and the pressure to change course is mounting. Even the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, a Kremlin-loyalist newspaper, ran an op-ed on Tuesday lamenting the government's inaction. "The shrapnel of rage is flying in every direction, not only against the killers - indeed, less against them - but against the leadership, which is not providing security," the paper said. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, head of the nationalist Liberal Democrats, agreed in televised remarks on Monday, saying that Russia must again "take under total control any region where the preparation of suicide bombers is possible." On Monday evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Bombings: A New Cycle of Retaliation? | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

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